Older Versions of Mame32 (Main PC died)

[Lumpy]

Well my VP6 motherboard needs to be sent in for repairs and that's my only machine with an AGP slot.    My next best computer is a 466 Celeron with a 8mb ATI PCI Graphics card.  All of my roms and information is on a second HD formated NTFS.  Can anyone suggest a Mame32 version that will run descent on that 466 machine and where to get it from?  I'd also like to do TV out, but my graphics card doesn't support it, but I do have a VGA to S-video adapter from my matrox 450.  Will that work?  I'd really like to have this running for the holidays.  

Thanks in advance....

[namzep]

Most version I would think would run fairly well on that processor.  It really depends on what games you want to play.  If you're only into classic games you may want to try Mame .36 final as almost all of the classic games were nearly perfectly Mamed at that point.  It would be nice if Mame.dk or the Mamedb were still around as then you could easily look, find the games that you want to play, and see when the rom sets were last updated.  Try JoyMonkey's site since he has been building up an extensive collection of older Mame versions.  Remember, though, some of your rom sets will not work on older versions.  

[SirPeale]

The current version will work on a 466, but it all depends on what games you want to run on it.

Over in the 'Software' forum someone is collecting old versions of MAME32.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=14328

[paigeoliver]

Here is my handy dandy chart. Round to the closest number.

Processor speed.
400 or less - Mame .55
433 - .56
466 - .57
500 - .58
533 - .59
566 - .60
600 - .61
650 - .62
700 - .63
750 - .64
800 - .65
850 - .66
900 - .67
950 - .68
1.0 G - .69
1.1 - .70
1.2 - .71

and add 100 more megahertz for each version after.

Those numbers are not carved in stone, but they do match up very nicely to what the computer will actually run full speed. When in doubt, round down. I generally check my chart, and then carefully read the whatsnew.txt to see what games/features/etc was added/changed in version indicated by the chart, and then I roll back versions until I hit a change/game I care about.

[Spaced Invader]

Thanks, Paige! That's very helpfull info...had to save that one.

[Lumpy]

Thanks for the help.  I downloaded all of the Mame32 versions I could get my hands on.  And now I'll be adding paigeoliver's chart.  Hopefully I can get this computer to do what I want.